Independent Shabab Foundation

The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is one of ISF’s projects. It was the writer Sayed Fouad’s idea, as the African films are almost not screened in Egypt. Furthermore, Luxor hardly has any cultural or artistic events, and was therefore selected to de-centralize cultural or artistic events always oraginzed in Cairo and Alexandria.

Why Luxor City?

Though Luxor is the largest open-air museum in the world it was lacking artistic festivals. Its geographical position - in the very heart of Upper Egypt and hence closer to the rest of the African continent - gives the historic city a unique advantage .

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Under the slogan (Cinema … Many Lives to Live)

Luxor African Film Festival president, screenwriter Sayed Fouad, announced LAFF’s decision to honor Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun during its eighth edition for his contributions to African cinema that tackled the issues, dreams and worries of Africa, presenting them to the world, raising the status of African cinema internationally, and realizing this edition’s slogan “Cinema … Many Lives to Live”.

Khaled Saleh ... originally confectioner

Call for Entry for the National Student Film Competition at LAFF, and Closing Submissions for African and International Competitions

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Call for Entry for the National Student Film Competition at LAFF, and Closing Submissions for African and International Competitions

LAFF administration has announced the addition of a new competition to its program this year, which would be for film students and graduates in Egypt, and it requires the director to be a student or a graduate of a film school residing in Egypt.

It also requires the film to be a 2017 production with maximum run time of 30 minutes, the call for entries, to be submitted on the website ends at the 20th of January.

The festival’s administration sees that such a competition has become a necessity due to the huge number of submissions it’s been receiving by students and graduates of the Higher Institute of Cinema and other film academies in Egypt, which made it essential to create such a competition at LAFF dedicated to these creative works.

In addition, the festival’s selection committee will conclude its work this week regarding the official selections for the African and International competitions (Freedom and Human Rights .. Al Husseiny Abu Deif).

The festival will announce all details regarding its 7th edition at a press conference by the end of January 2018.